1. Patrick Tuohy was an Irish portrait, narrative, and genre painter.
22 Facts About Patrick Tuohy
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Patrick Joseph Tuohy was born in Dublin on 27 February 1894, at 77 Lower Dorset Street.
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Patrick Tuohy's parents were the surgeon, John Joseph Tuohy, and Maire Tuohy.
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Patrick Tuohy's father had a surgery at 15 North Frederick Street, and his mother was a member of numerous nationalist organisations such as Cumann na mBan.
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Patrick Tuohy attended a Christian Brothers school in Dublin and later became one of the first pupils at Patrick Pearse's St Enda's School, there he studied art under William Pearse.
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Patrick Tuohy attended the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art at night, going to become a full-time student, studying under William Orpen for five years.
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Patrick Tuohy then executed ceiling paintings at the La Scala theatre, Dublin.
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Patrick Tuohy won the Taylor art scholarship in 1912 for his watercolour, "Supper time", and later won the Taylor award in 1915 for his watercolour portrait of May Power.
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Patrick Tuohy was able to use these and other prizes to travel to Spain, living in Madrid for a year while teaching painting at the Loreto convent, as well as studying the work of Francisco de Zurbaran and Diego Velazquez.
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Patrick Tuohy began exhibiting with the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1918, exhibiting "The Wicklow labourer" and "A Mayo peasant boy".
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Patrick Tuohy continued to show work at the RHA until 1927.
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Patrick Tuohy contributed a pencil sketch to The book of Saint Ultan: a collection of pictures and poems by Irish artists and writers which was edited by Katherine MacCormack.
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From 1920 to 1926, Patrick Tuohy taught life class with Sean Keating at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art, where he taught Norah McGuinness, Maurice MacGonigal, and Hilda van Stockum.
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Patrick Tuohy painted a portrait of Joyce himself in Paris on his return from Italy in 1924, which he painted over the course of 28 sittings.
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Patrick Tuohy painted portraits of a number of theatre personalities in the 1920s, such as Ria Mooney, Padraic Colum, and Sean O'Casey.
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Patrick Tuohy initially lived in South Carolina, and then to New York.
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Patrick Tuohy had a studio at 440 Riverside Drive, and focused on portraiture, while living at 185 West 85th Street.
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Patrick Tuohy was one of the organisers the first contemporary exhibition of Irish art at the Hackett gallery, New York in 1929.
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Patrick Tuohy exhibited "Portrait of a girl in a striped dress" and a portrait of James Stephens at that show.
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Patrick Tuohy was one of the founders of the Irish University Club, New York, lecturing on Irish art, as well as on Irish literature to the Irish reading circle.
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Patrick Tuohy's friends became concerned when they had not seen him, with Ria Mooney and others gaining entry to his apartment out of concern.
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Patrick Tuohy's body was repatriated to Ireland on the Scythia liner, and he was buried at Glasnevin Cemetery.